Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Creggawatta, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creggawatta
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64379, -9.07914
- SMR number
- MA111-095----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, located on a gentle E–facing slope which bordering a natural depression of wet ground fed by a spring. The ground falls to E for c. 6m towards a small pool.
This possible burnt mound is evident as a low amorphous rise, without clearly defined limits. When inspected in 2000, the top (diam. c. 5m) of the rise has been denuded by farm stock revealing a concentration of limestone fragments in soil noticeably darker than in the surrounding field.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 9 March 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.